In The Beginning.
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
Period. End of the story. God created the heaven and the earth. There was a period of time that passed between verses 1 and 2.
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. He created it, and it was perfect. Our earth was at one time a plush and beautiful planet with no pollution or evil. Dinosaurs roamed our earth in its younger days and The sons of God all shouted for joy!
Job 38:1-7
Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
2Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
3Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.
4Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.
5Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?
6Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;
7When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Job 40:15-24: Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.
16Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.
17He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together.
18His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron.
19He is the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him.
20Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play.
21He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens.
22The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about.
23Behold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth.
24He taketh it with his eyes: his nose pierceth through snares.
You tell me what you thank this is, and have you ever seen one. There should have been 2 of them on the Ark if they were alive then.
Scientists estimate our earth to be about 4.6 billion years old. The bible does not say WHEN God created the earth, but we do know that our earth is millions of years old because of the fossils and remains, such as the dinosaurs of prehistoric times, which have been found and documented. It is probably safe to sat that when He created the earth that then was, it was a very long time ago!
2nd Peter 3:8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. Time mean nothing to God. Even though you can not see God, through faith and by studying His word, we can discover some of the mysteries of our world!
Something happened which caused that first world age to end, and, for this age,which we now live in, to begin. What or “WHO” could have caused such destruction.
Isaiah 45:18 For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; He hath established it, He created it not in vain, He formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else.
Hebrews 11:3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
2nd Peter 3:3-7 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,4And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. 5For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: 6.Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: 7But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
Verse 6: You just might be saying that was Noah's flood. Lets see what Gods word has to say about that.
Genesis 7:2-5 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.3Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.4For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.5And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him.
Verse 16. And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in. All flesh that included the other races other than Noah and his family for Noah and His family were perfect in there generations.
Jeremiah 4:25 English Standard Version
I looked, and behold, there was no man, and all the birds of the air had fled.
Berean Study Bible
I looked, and no man was left; all the birds of the air had fled.
King James Bible
I beheld, and, lo,there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled.
This is describing the end of the first earth age. That which ended at the end of Genesis 1:1. This in Jeremiah could not be the flood of Noah because there were people, birds, cattle ect. both clean and unclean animals on the ark.
Genesis 8:11 And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.
There was life left on earth after the flood or the Dove could not have brought back part of the olive tree.
Wow! That's a mighty small Bible ya gots there, mister!
